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Jul 24, 2018 · Josef Strauss I. Despite having initially followed his father’s urgings to pursue a career outside of music and work as an engineer for the city of Vienna, Josef eventually found his way into the family business. He was evidently as skilled in music as he was in engineering, as he composed hundreds of original works and arrangements. ...
Recopilación de temas del Gran Compositor Josef Strauss00:00 Plappermaulchen, Polka schnell, Op. 245 (arr. Max Schonherr)03:10 Feuerfest! Polka francaise, Op...
Many of his waltzes have the greatest musical value of any the Strauss family output. He showed the influence of composers from Schubert and Chopin to Liszt and Wagner. Some of his most popular waltzes are Love and Life, Voices of the Times, Music of the Spheres, and Village Swallows from Austria.
Josef Strauss’s compositions have been described and characterised as ‘half the time happy, half the time sad’ by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and as ‘elegaically ecstatic’ by Hans Weigl. Richard Strauss was so fascinated by his unrelated namesake’s waltz Dynamiden that he included it in his opera Der Rosenkavalier.
influenced by Johann Strauss I. Strauss’s other sons, Josef (1827–70) and Eduard (1835–1916), became known as conductors, as did Eduard’s son Johann. Josef was also a composer of waltzes.
Actually Josef Strauss, brother of the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss had taken up the bourgeois profession of an engineer and harbored no ambitions to become involved professionally in music. But when his musician brother fell severely ill in 1853, and his physicians orderedn him to take a half-year pause, the inexperienced Josef Strauss had to the leadership of the famous ...
Aug 21, 2006 · Josef Strauss. Audio will be available later today. Just to be clear, Josef Strauss is the brother of Johann Strauss, and the son of Johann Strauss I, as opposed to Johann Strauss II. It's easy to ...
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